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From One Small Seed is a comprehensive guide to Australian native plants and their seeds.
Over 700 species from 63 families and 240 genera are described with their identifying features of flowers, fruits and seeds illustrated. Each species description is accompanied by a distribution map and information about pollinators, seed dispersal, seed collection, propagation, ecology and Aboriginal names and uses. Species information is supported by introductory chapters on our changing landscapes and related topics.
South Australian Outback people are resourceful and generous contributors to communities, their families, businesses, the State economy and to the nation. It’s no different in times of war. Through this book we can begin to understand how men and women of the South Australian Outback contributed their services – and sometimes their lives for their country. Whether at home knitting socks for soldiers or raising stock for slaughter; whether meeting the need for horses or volunteering on the home front, people of the SA Outback played their part.
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By the time he was 15, the author had lived at 10 different addresses and started over at seven different schools. At age fifteen he had lived enough torment and brutality, from his father who killed his mother in one of his violent rages when Jim was nine years old. Moving on, leaving behind, his father and his oldest, unfortunate, now adult brother. Jim still had much learning to do, through what was to be a very differently challenging, but in the end, rewarding and wonderfully satisfying culmination. Walk this amazing journey with Jim and discover how your road, yet to be travelled, need not be mapped, by that, travelled, so far.
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A geological map of the Flinders Ranges National Park area.
This map explains the Geological History of the Flinders Ranges and is an excellent Geolocical Map, it also has Fossil information about Stomatolites, The Ediacara Fauna, Cambrian Trace Fossils, and Cambrian Shelly Fossils
DRIVES in the area Arkaroo Rock, Rawnsley Bluff Lookout, Hucks Lookout, Stokes Hill Lookout, Great Wall of China, Brachina Gorge, Wilkawillina Gorge Road, Bunyeroo Valley, and Bunyeroo Valley Lookout
Walks or hikes to do , Wilkawillina Gorge, Bunyeroo and Wilcolo Creeks, Haywards Hut, St Mary Peak, Bridle Gap, and the Heysen Trail.
This map is a great learning tool for the whole family and great value.
This book is an interesting book for the Prospector, Fossicker or someone looking for history of GOLD in South Australia.
This book is a general account of the locations and early history of gold in South Australia. Gold was chased by many people in the early day and many people enjoy today to fossick for gold. Gold in South Australia’s historic goldfields occurs in quarts reefs associated with Precambrian rocks. The book contains early photos, topographic maps, information about the early mines and gold fossickers regulations and equipment.
The book contains 88 pages and is spiral bound. A handy prospectors/fossickers book.
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Further published material is cited in the text and is fully referenced in the Bibliography. Our intention rather, is to present information from a variety of sources, much of which may not be found conveniently elsewhere, and some is otherwise unpublished.
Chapter 1 introduces grasswrens in their avian family the Maluridae and covers their distribution and the slowly emerging understanding of the group’s composition. It examines the discovery and naming of species, the long period in the first half of the 20th century, when little was learnt about them and much uncertainty prevailed, and finally, the last half century of progress towards our present still tantalisingly incomplete state of knowledge. Some may find Chapter 1 excessively technical and prefer to start with Chapter 2 which discusses the nature and behaviour of grasswrens, their subtle variety and the habitats that they occupy. There is a tight relationship between grasswrens and their habitats and we have therefore provided a relatively detailed account of that subject. Chapter 3 outlines some aspects of their social organisation, as far as it has been investigated. Much more research is needed in that field.
Why is one of our prime ministers in the Guiness Book of Records? Howmany beers did Rodney Marsh really drink? How did beer save the life of a bloke bitten by a bloody great big brown snake?
The ansers to these and many other burning beer-related questions can be found in the pages of this great Aussie
A beer barrel full of yarns, laughs and beer-related facts, this is the perfect book to flip through while you’re enjoying a cold one!
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Although he became an entertainer and writer instead, Swampy was always drawn to the life of Australia’s shearers. When he began collecting shearing stories for this book, he was interviewed on the ABC radio program ‘Summer All Over” and was inundated with callers from all over the country, all keen to pass on their own tales. The result is this marvellous collection that brings to life a world of outback stations, larrikins, roustabouts, sagacious dogs and occasionally strange cooks
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‘Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter’s Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are ready to tell their stories’
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Awarding-winning writer Bill Swampy Marsh collects yarns that get us in, hook, line and sinker. He gives us back our childhood and shares those precious memories of an Australia that’s passing into legend.
The people you’ll meet will touch your heart as Swampy brings to life all the drama and delight of life in outback Australia. There’s the story of Frederick Aloysius Millard, the only dog ever to become a member of a Citizens Club in Australia, thanks to the vote of a woman who was sure she’d been introduced to this ‘eccentric’ man twenty years back; the man who refused to go to the doctor after being shot, because he’d been hit in a very unfortunate spot … which made it obvious he’d been shot while running away; the unfortunate bloke who tried to blow a snake out of the dunny but ended up nearly taking himself out of existence.
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From the 1800s to the onset of World War I, Pioneers making their homes in outback Australia were joined by their wives, many of whom had no idea of the difficulties and dangers ahead.
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“Grindell’s Hut” by Alan Bailey. Formery titled “Cloud over the Gammon” A true story of intrigue, mystery and murder in the lonely Gammon Ranges of South Australia during 1918. A story of the fate that befell a station owner near Grindell’s hut. It is a fitting record of part of South Australia’s history.
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS CLOUD UNDER THE GAMMONS
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As the title implies, the book is intended as a guide to the geology of South Australia. It has been compiled from the work of many geologists. At the end, there is a list of general references which have been used in the preparation of each chapter. These will provide details which cannot be included in a guide of this kind, and further references which are too numerous to list.
South Australia has had a very long geological history traceable back for over 2000 million years. It has areas of ancient basement rocks and of younger rocks representing most of the geological column, which are exposed at the surface or have been revealed by deep drilling in exploration for minerals, petroleum and natural gas.
Published by the Hawker Centenary Committee. This hard cover book of 256 pages. A section of the foreword to this book written by Bunny Collins. “I feel confident that everybody who has read the book “Hawker – Hub of the Flinders” which was published in 1980 to commemorate the 100 year history of our town…
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Hans Mincham author of “Hawker..Hub of the Flinders” wrote the following on page 63 and 64. Hawker, we have seen, arose on a bend in the railway line that was the nearest point for roads running on through the ranges via Arkaba and Wilpena to Blinman and surrounding runs, and, more importantly, through the long corridor between the Chace and Druid Ranges to stations on the Eastern Plain flanking the northern Flinders and stretching on to New South Wales and Queensland. And of course Hawker was the obvious centre for wheat farmers in the Hundred of Arkaba and those immediately around the town in the Hundred of Wonoka. The quantity of stores for distant runs unloaded there was very considerable. The teamsters on their return trips brought back wool to be trucked from the Hawker railway station.
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In this remarkable memoir, Tom tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920’s and 1930’s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in some of the toughest country in Australia and later as a buffalo shooter and crocodile in the Northern Territory.
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